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Research conducted by Sue Rhee and Hatem Rouached was given a news spotlight by CBS Detroit meteorologist Karen Carter. Their work seeks to increase plant resilience to phosphorus deficiency—a crucial breakthrough as world phosphorus levels continue to decrease in the face of widespread agricultural uses. 

BMB and MPS graduate student MacKenzie Jacobs writes about her experience in Switzerland in summer 2023, attending Polyploid Summer School at the University of Fribourg.

Over 120 researchers visited MSU's campus for the 62nd annual meeting of the PSNA—a leading gathering of plant chemical diversity community and scholarship.

Five Molecular Plant Science students—including three from BMB—were recently accepted into the Plant Biotechnology for Health and Sustainability (PBHS) Graduate Training Program. 

Current BMB graduate students share a bit about themselves and their research.

MSU science education researchers Kevin Haudek, Melanie Cooper, and Rachel Henderson have received a $700,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the role of Mathematical Sensemaking in Science (MaSS) in undergraduate STEM courses. This collaborative project will develop new assessments to elicit mathematical thinking from biology, chemistry, and physics students. Research results will deepen our understanding of the role of mathematics in undergraduate science education.

MSU researcher Jin He recieves NIH grant to further study connections between ASH1L gene and autism spectrum disorder.

MSU biochemist Robert Quinn has spent years studying the biochemistry of coral bleaching, a heat-induced response to stress causing it to turn white. Bleaching is damaging to reefs and is expected to increase due to climate change. While Quinn has discovered unique betaine lipids in coral that are markers of resistance to coral bleaching, very little is known about them. During a literature review of these lipids, Quinn discovered that MSU colleague, Christoph Benning, had written on the subject. This connection led to the two scientists teaming up on a $1.9 million NSF grant to study the role that betaine lipids play in coral bleaching.